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After lunch there is the ritual known as the walk. If the hickory, pine and bobolinks that grace the center's 15 acres are not enough, there is what may be termed the reality walk. A peripatetic scholar will stroll to the end of the center's private road and scuff pebbles along Alexander Drive while authentic truck drivers roar past. Then, with perspective restored and the latest Alice-Lucy masterpiece well on the road to digestion, it's back to the study. Or to a seminar. There are four ongoing seminars meeting this year, rather forbiddingly...
...Myth and Ritual in Africa," Marie Jeanne Adams...
FRIDAY evening the Church of the Covenant in Boston was the scene of an extraordinary spectacle. Hundreds of people stood in lines, jammed the pews, and knelt in the aisles of that grand and holy edifice, seeking an odd mixture of sacrament and blasphemy, tradition and revolution, ritual and riot--in a word...
Instead, the script drops many heavy-handed hints of incestuous longings between father and daughter and visits much trendy brutality on the poor prince for daring to imagine that blonds might be more fun. There is also a nasty ritual defloration sequence involving the girl he was supposed to marry before Mia came along...
...like becoming a tribal elder in sciences," Vogt, who received the honor for his study of the ritual and ceremony of the Maya Indians in southern Mexico, said yesterday...